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Archive for September, 2009

Today’s Booking Through Thursday topic is “What’s the saddest book you’ve read recently?”

A few months ago I read The Memory Keeper’s Daughter. It was different from most books I read. Normally I stick with light topics, but when this movie came out on Lifetime, I knew I wanted to read the book.

I didn’t like it as much as I thought I would, but it was definitely emotional. I cried a number of times during the book and then again when the same stuff happened in the movie.

After reading this book, I remembered why I didn’t read sad, serious books. Working in the news business, I see sad and serious from the time I get there until the time I leave. When I come home and relax and read, I want it to be light and fun.

My Wedding Shower!

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Right now I am reading Wicked: Witch and Curse.  The book I have has the first two books in the series in one. I think there’s a lot to tease in this book, who doesn’t love witches and warlocks?

Pg. 71 “How long will you be my lady? he wondered silently. How long before our houses feud once more, and I poison or behead you, or burn you at the stake?

Sound like love to me? What do you think?

What are you reading this week?

So it’s not officially Monday anymore, at least not in West Virginia. When I looked at this today, I didn’t think I wanted to respond, but then I saw other people’s responses and decided I wanted to take part.

Today’s question is: Do you listen to music while reading? Does this change if you’re reading in or out of your house? Do you have a preference of music for such occasions?

I hate other sound when I am reading lol. I like to do most of my reading in my bed where it is silent. Or I like to be in the bookstore, or outside. Natural sounds I’m ok with, but music drives me insane. I try to block things out and some things I’ve mastered – like people at work when I’m trying to write. But I still have a hard time sometimes focusing on my book when the TV is on. And I really can’t concentrate when the TV is on AND the computer sound is on. At that time, I normally just put my book down.

I’ve always been this way though. Even when I was young, I’d have to close my door and be by myself to study or read. If there were other people around, I never got any work done. I’ve never listened to music, but when people at the library in college would crank theirs and I had to listen to it a few tables away, it would drive me nuts!

What about you? Sorry for my rant

I am very excited for this week’s edition of “On My Bookshelf”. This meme was started by The Printed Page as Mailbox Monday. However, most of my books don’t come in the mailbox, and I normally do mine on Sundays. So it’s kind of the same, with a different day and title type of feel!

This week from Amazon.com I got Wicked: Witch and Curse

I found this book after I gave up on Wuthering Heights. I just couldn’t get into it. I needed a book with a W Title for my A to Z Challenge and I came across this.

Holly Catcher’s world shatters when her parents are killed in a terrible accident. Wrenched from her home in San Francisco, she is sent to Seattle to live with her relatives, Aunt Marie-Claire and her twin cousins, Amanda and Nicole.

In her new home, Holly’s sorrow and grief soon give way to bewilderment at the strange incidents going on around her. Such as how any wish she whispers to her cat seems to come true. Or the way a friend is injured after a freak attack from a vicious falcon. And there’s the undeniable, magnetics attraction to a boy Holly barely knows.

This actually contains the first two in the series so it’s over 600 pages, but I’m REALLY looking forward to it.

That’s it for this week. What’s new to you?